One Christmas
by Tony Bill
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Actor: Henry Winkler, Katharine Hepburn, Swoosie Kurtz, T.J. Lowther, Tonea StewartDirector: Tony Bill
Brand: Lions Gate
Cinematographer: Donald M. Morgan
Cinematographer: Thomas Del Ruth
Producer: John Davis
Producer: John Philip Dayton
Producer: Merrill H. Karpf
Writer: Duane Poole
Writer: Truman Capote
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of One Christmas
Movie Review: Bitter sweet...
Summary: 4 Stars
I think this movie was heart wrenching just because I think the child wanted so badly to be with his mom and dad but unfortunately it just couldn't be that way. I can't give the end of the film away but I'll tell you it is very bitter sweet. A nice clean family movie, worth buying, worth watching.
Summary of One Christmas
Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/13/2005 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: NrTruman Capote's classic Depression-era short story is well served in One Christmas, an earnest holiday heartwarmer from the folks at Hallmark Entertainment. It's got all the sentiment one would expect from a Hallmark TV movie, but director Tony Bill knows just how to moderate the maudlin and focus on genuine emotions (as he did for his big-screen releases Untamed Heart and A Home of Our Own). Of course it never hurts to have Katharine Hepburn on board for some high-class pedigree: In her final performance the Hollywood legend goes out on a high note, delivering a pivotal scene about living life with no regrets, and she may just as well be describing her own independent spirit. The great Kate plays a wealthy New Orleans socialite whose spinster niece (Swoosie Kurtz, giving the film's best performance) is vulnerable to the gold-digging charms of a con artist (Henry Winkler) whose estranged 8-year-old son (T.J. Lowther, from Clint Eastwood's A Perfect World) has arrived from Alabama with high expectations that his father can't meet. Dashed hopes and cynical behavior threaten to ruin the boy's Christmas, but Bill and his esteemed cast stay true to the well-earned sentiment of Capote's story, arriving at a moment of fatherly redemption that is nicely accented by Van Dyke Parks's understated score. You'd have to be a Scrooge to disapprove. --Jeff Shannon
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